Major City Chicago Top Tourist Sites
95 year old Wrigley Field-Home of the Chicago Cubs
Lincoln's house- Springfield- the 16th president's house
Fort Defiance state park- Cairo
Lincoln Park- USA's biggest urban park
Shawnee National Park-Sothern Illinois- a great place to hike State Symbols
Bird: Northern Cardinal Flower: Violet Nickname: Prairie State
Motto:
"State Sovereignty, National Union." Famous or Fun Facts:
-Illinois has 57 state parks!
-Illinois holds a jazz festival in Decatur-the soybean capital of the world!
-First state east of Mississippi to let woman vote Geography: Illinois used to be almost all prarie. It has 22 rivers. Glaciers were in Illinois long before people were and formed the land. Climate: Recorded highest temp: 117 F
Recorded lowest temp: -36 F
Average July temp: 76 F
Average Jan temp: 26 F
Warm in Summer, cold in Winter, in between in Spring an Autumn.
Chicago
Top Tourist Sites
95 year old Wrigley Field-Home of the Chicago Cubs
Lincoln's house- Springfield- the 16th president's house
Fort Defiance state park- Cairo
Lincoln Park- USA's biggest urban park
Shawnee National Park-Sothern Illinois- a great place to hike
State Symbols
Bird:
Northern Cardinal
Flower:
Violet
Nickname:
Prairie State
Motto:
"State Sovereignty, National Union."
Famous or Fun Facts:
-Illinois has 57 state parks!
-Illinois holds a jazz festival in Decatur-the soybean capital of the world!
-First state east of Mississippi to let woman vote
Geography:
Illinois used to be almost all prarie. It has 22 rivers. Glaciers were in Illinois long
before people were and formed the land.
Climate:
Recorded highest temp: 117 F
Recorded lowest temp: -36 F
Average July temp: 76 F
Average Jan temp: 26 F
Warm in Summer, cold in Winter, in between in Spring an Autumn.